MediaTek Helio G36 Advantages
Lower TDP (2.2W vs 9W)
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.0435 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)
More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 12nm)